London Bridge incident is an example of a swarming attack-Melbourne CBD is highly vulnerable to a similar attack ,for which Graham Ashton has no answer
by Ganesh Sahathevan
Regardless of who or what perpetrated the London Bridge attack, we can be certain that it was a swarming attack given this eyewitness description of what took place:
BBC reporter Holly Jones, who was on the bridge, said a van driven by a man was "probably travelling at about 50 miles an hour" before it hit a number of people.
"He swerved right round me and then hit about five or six people. He hit about two people in front of me and then three behind," Ms Jones told the BBC News Channel.
BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said a security guard who oversees a number of pubs in the London Bridge area said he saw four people stabbed by three attackers.
As reported on this blog, the Melbourne CBD's grid structure and inter-connected pathways, often via major shopping areas, makes in especially vulnerable to a swarming attack, of the type seen in Mumbai, Paris and now London. The vehicle incident in the Melbourne CBD earlier this year showed how poorly prepared Graham Ashton and Vic Police are for such an eventuality.
Highly detailed research is available to help plan for such an attack, but it has been ignored by the Victorian Government and Graham Ashton.
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by Ganesh Sahathevan
In a 2015 article this writer described how swarming attacks like those seen in Mumbai and Paris could easily happen in Australia, and why the armed forces are best placed to deal with that threat.
Consequently and as a result of a recent excursion trough the streets and alleyways of Melbourne this writer has come to realize that the Melbourne CBD provides an especially suited environment for such an attack.
To begin with , the CBD (see picture below) is neatly divided into square grids which makes identifying and planning insertion , execution, extraction and recovery zones easy, or at least easier compared to say Mumbai.Then,the squares are inter-connected in many different ways, which enables the use of different modes of transport.One could easily imagine a combination of trucks and scrambler motorbikes being used for the insertion of attackers who could then proceed on foot,very easily picking off targets without hindrance given the density of people in the lanes,which in some places extend into the shopping and entertainment precincts
Surrounding the grid are the main roads which have convenient entry and exit points that can be blocked-of with quite easily, thus entrapping all those in the grid, and keeping assistance out.
Open spaces for aerial insertion of troops and medics are few and easily identifiable, and readily booby trapped.
As this writer discovered, doing the ground work for such an attack is quite easy.Melbourne police are so obliging that one could walk the streets for days taking notes and pictures without being bothered in any way, even when dressed in black track suit ,sneakers and carrying a military issue side bag.
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In a 2015 article this writer described how swarming attacks like those seen in Mumbai and Paris could easily happen in Australia, and why the armed forces are best placed to deal with that threat.
Consequently and as a result of a recent excursion trough the streets and alleyways of Melbourne this writer has come to realize that the Melbourne CBD provides an especially suited environment for such an attack.
To begin with , the CBD (see picture below) is neatly divided into square grids which makes identifying and planning insertion , execution, extraction and recovery zones easy, or at least easier compared to say Mumbai.Then,the squares are inter-connected in many different ways, which enables the use of different modes of transport.One could easily imagine a combination of trucks and scrambler motorbikes being used for the insertion of attackers who could then proceed on foot,very easily picking off targets without hindrance given the density of people in the lanes,which in some places extend into the shopping and entertainment precincts
Surrounding the grid are the main roads which have convenient entry and exit points that can be blocked-of with quite easily, thus entrapping all those in the grid, and keeping assistance out.
Open spaces for aerial insertion of troops and medics are few and easily identifiable, and readily booby trapped.
As this writer discovered, doing the ground work for such an attack is quite easy.Melbourne police are so obliging that one could walk the streets for days taking notes and pictures without being bothered in any way, even when dressed in black track suit ,sneakers and carrying a military issue side bag.
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